LA TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Activist Brockovich played by Julia Roberts

5 Without a cent 10 Youngsters 14 High-fat, lowcarb diet, casually 15 Merits

16 Falco of “Nurse Jackie”

17 Backyard vegetable patch, e.g.

19 “__ Enchanted”: Anne Hathaway film 20 Surveil secretly 21 Socialized at leisure

23 Stretch the truth

25 Prefix with pod 26 Configuration before customization 34 Tiny criticism 35 24-Down soother 36 Hearing-related 37 Tennis great Arthur posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom

39 Titled

41 Mani-__ 42 Hops along happily 44 Shadowboxes 46 Pen tip

47 Element of early internet art 50 Lifesaving skill, for short

51 Gaming console with a gesture-based controller

52 Leafy bowlful with hard-boiled eggs

58 Bub

62 Civil rights icon Parks 63 Brainstorming breakthroughs, and the ends of 17-, 26-, and 47-Across? 65 Opposed to 66 Bring to mind 67 Pull sharply 68 Breakfast for dinner, say

69 Used needle and thread

70 Concludes

DOWN

1 Cardiac readouts, briefly

2 Gather crops

3 Coy response to a compliment

4 Drift into dreamland

5 Actor/director Stiller

6 Many Megan Thee Stallion songs

7 “Derry Girls” girl played by Louisa Harland

8 Celtic artwork feature

9 North Carolina’s Biltmore __ 10 “Don’t stop now!” 11 Unoccupied 12 Pickle herb 13 Official emblem 18 Giant computer of the 1940s 22 Miss, in Mex. 24 Unwanted beach souvenir 26 Once-common storage media 27 Moral principle 28 Dog walker’s line 29 __ Bay Buccaneers 30 Lipstick mishap 31 “Fame” star

Cara 32 Lowest point 33 Silver-tongued 34 Astronauts’ gp. 38 Dumpster firelevel blunder

40 __ a blank 43 Tentative tastes 45 Space series genre

48 Building site sights

49 Camp project with rubber bands 52 Make up for procrastination, perhaps 53 Sharpen, as a blade

54 “¿Cómo __ usted?” 55 Adoration 56 Declare publicly 57 Hockey feint 59 Incline

60 Terra firma 61 Requests 64 Went first